- Thu 11/20 7:30 PMBuy tickets
approx. 70 minutes
With their love for odd sounds and their special eye for interlocking acoustic and visual action, the young composition and performance duo Mercier / Böttcher has become an insider tip on the independent music theater scene. In their opening piece for the festival, they contemplate the absurdity of life from inside the drum of a washing machine. What is concealed behind the strange idea of “Reinheit” that detergent commercials have been suggesting to Germans for generations? What is the real story behind a medieval legend about washwomen? And isn't the cycle of a washing machine actually a profound symbol for the chapters of our lives from the cradle to the grave? You will never again just thoughtlessly fill up your machine!
Concept, Composition, Text, Direction
Ludmilla Mercier, Jakob BöttcherWith
Trixi Strobel Performance
Julien Mégroz Percussion, Performance
Lis Marti Keyboard, Performance
HYPER DUO (Julien Mégroz & Gilles Grimaitre) Creative Collaboration
Pablo Mena Escudero Set Design
Erwin Fonseca Arande Lighting
A production of BAM! – Berliner Festival für aktuelles Musiktheater 2025. Kindly supported by ro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung, and Impuls Neue Musik